Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. He said he would spend $ 100 billion on chip manufacturing plants in the United States at a White House Press Conference March 3.
President Donald Trump called the investment “a tremendous thing for our country and, in hope, for his company”, referring to TSMC President CC Wei, who also spoke at the press conference. TSMC said the new investment It brings its total to the United States to $ 165 million And it will go to the construction of five new manufacturing facilities in Arizona.
TSMC It supplies semiconductors to companies like Nvidia and Apple for artificial intelligence, and Wei said that investment reflects the Trump administration focus on turning the United States into a leader of the AI. Wei also thanked companies and other American clients, including AMD, Qualcomm and Broadcom.
“This new $ 100 billion investment will be introduced to the creation of five avant -garde manufacturing facilities in the big state we have just discussed, Arizona, and we will create thousands of jobs: many thousands of jobs and are jobs of great payment,” said President Trump.
Wei said that the first of its manufacturing facilities in Phoenix was opened in 2020 and that the company would start planning to plan three more Fabs with two more in the coming years, all in Arizona. The Ai of the White House and the Zar of Cryptocurrency David Sacks said that “the products that TSMC make are literally the most important products in the world. These advanced chips can feed -everything. Alas. They powered the phone. They could have cars. And without them, the whole modern economy would stop.”
In February, Trump announced an investment from the $ 500 million data center with Oracle, Openai and Softbank, also focused on supporting the AI. Both in the Trail campaign and during his previous administration – and as President Biden before he – Trump has called to return to the production of semiconductors in the United States after much of the manufacturing industry moved abroad. Advanceing the production of semiconductors in the United States is a matter of economic and national security, Trump told the event.
